Process for making ornamental wall facings



Jan. 16, 1968 c SEMAN ET AL PROCESS FOR MAKING ORNAMENTAL WALL FACINGSFiled Oct. 28, 1965 United States Patent 01 Fiied Oct. 28, 1963, Ser.No. 319,398 1 Claim. (Cl. 156-71) This invention relates to buildingsand, more particularly, to siding for buildings and the like.

This invention is an improvement over the process of applying siding andthe like to buildings shown in Patent No. 3,096,195.

In the said patent, it was necessary to apply a base coat ofcementitious material to the building before applying masking tape toform the joints. It was, therefore, necessary to first apply a coat tothe building and then the masking tape to the coated material and tothen apply the plaster.

In the present disclosure, the masking tape can be applied to a panel ata factory by means of machines or the like and the panel mounted on thebuilding. The only necessary operation thereafter is to apply thecementitious material to the panel and remove the masking tape fromunder it, thus saving considerable time and expense and, also, obtaininga more uniform job of laying the masking tape. Further, it is possibleto lay the tape in irregular decorative patterns in this manner whichwould not be possible in a field installation.

It is, according an object of the present invention to provide animproved process of applying a coating of material to a building.

Another object of the invention is to provide an improved process ofapplying a coating of material to a building which is simple,economical, and eflicient to carry out.

With the above and other objects in view, the present invention consistsof the combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter more fullydescribed, illustrated in the accompanying drawing and more particularlypointed out in the appended claims, it being understood that changes maybe made in the form, size, proportions, and minor details ofconstruction without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of theadvantages of the invention.

In the drawing:

FIG. 1 is a view of a panel made according to the present invention;

FIG. '2 is an enlarged View of a taping arrangement for FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a view of the arrangement of two panels placed together; and

FIGS. 4 and 5 are views of other methods of the taping arrangement.

Now with more particular reference to the drawing, a panel is shownwhich could be a sheet of flexible material such as a sheet suitable foruse as a vapor barrier. This could be cloth, plastic material, or someother material and it can be bonded to the outside of a building. If thepanel It} is made of plywood or some other rigid material, this materialcan be nailed or otherwise attached to the building. Where the sheet isused for interior decoration, it has been discovered that a sheet ofmaterial such as fabric is suitable for the base sheet of the panel 10.

There-after, longitudinal tapes 11 and transverse tapes 12 are placed inposition on the panel 10 prior to shipment of the sheet. The panel can,therefore, be sent out to the job with the tape in place thereon readyfor a coat of cement material or other material having the property ofhardening in situ to be placed thereover. Thereafter, before the cementmaterial has had time to harden, the tapes 11 and 12 can be removed and,with them, the plaster overlying them, thereby leaving a brick likefinish.

The two sheets of the panel 10 are held together by a seam 14 whichcovers the joint therebetween and the plastic cement material which issubsequently applied is applied over the seam 14 as well as the otherparts of the sheets.

FIGS. 4 and 5 show other ways of holding two sheets together to receivetape such as the tapes 11 and 12 in FIGS. 1, 2, and 3.

In FIG. 4, the two sheets 16 are held together by a rigid bar 18 whichis held to the sheets by means of screw 15.

In the embodiment of FIG. 5, a rigid bar 20 is held to a sheet 19 bymeans of bolts 17.

The process disclosed herein could also be carried out by providing apattern of cardboard or the like conforming to the pattern of theconfiguration desired. The pattern could be of the same thickness as thecoat of material to be applied. This pattern could be applied to thepanels at the factory and the panels shipped to the job site as setforth herein. The final coat of material could then be applied and thepattern thereafter removed.

The foregoing specification sets forth the invention in its preferredpractical forms but the structure shown and process disclosed arecapable of modification within a range of equivalents without departingfrom the invention which is to be understood is broadly novel as iscommensurate with the appended claim.

The embodiments of the invention in which an exclusive property orprivilege is claimed are defined as follows:

We claim:

1. A process of applying plastic material to the outside surf-ace of abuilding comprising providing sheets of rigid plywood material,

applying relatively long pieces of pressure sensitive tape to one sideof said sheets,

applying relatively short pieces of said tape to said sheets general-1yperpendicular to said first mentioned pieces to form a brick likepattern,

attaching said sheets to said building,

and then applying plastic cementitious material having the property ofhardening in situ over said tape and said sheets to a depth of at leastone-eighth inch, and removing said tape before said material hardens.

References Cited UNITED STATES PATENTS 2,110,335 3/1938 Kritzer ll78.52,510,120 6/1950 Leander 1l744 2,995,461 8/1961 Boicey et a1 1178.5 X3,032,433 5/1962 Lewis et al 11738 X 3,096,195 7/1963 Seman et a1117-8.5

EARL M. BERGERT, Primary Examiner.

HAROLD ANSHER, Examiner.

1. A PROCESS OF APPLYING PLASTIC MATERIAL TO THE OUTSIDE SURFACE OF ABUILDING COMPRISING PROVIDING SHEETS OF RIGID PLYWOOD MATERIAL, APPLYINGRELATIVELY LONG PIECES OF PRESSURE SENSITIVE TAPE TO ONE SIDE OF SAIDSHEETS, APPLYING REALTIVELY SHORT PIECES OF SAID TAPE TO SAID SHEETSGENERALLY PERPENDICULAR TO SAID FIRST MENTIONED PIECES TO FORM A BRICKLIKE PATTERN, ATTACHING SAID SHEETS TO SAID BUILDING, AND THEN APPLYINGPLASTIC CEMENTITIOUS MATERIAL HAVING THE PROPERTY OF HARDENING IN SITUOVER SAID TAPE AND SAID SHEETS TO A DEPTH OF AT LEAST ONE-EIGHT INCH,AND REMOVING SAID TAPE BEFORE SAID MATERIAL HARDENS.